Quotes About Deception

It seems to me that more plots have been imagined than really exist.

Für jedes komplexe Problem gibt es eine einfache Lösung, und die ist die falsche.

Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute, who has many lovers but disappoints all and grants her favors to none. She transforms the haughty into fools, the rich into paupers, the philosophers into dolts, and the deceived into loquacious deceivers…. —Trithemius, Annalmm Hirsaugensium Tomi II, S. Gallo, 1690, 141

Kada policijos informatorius tampa išties patikimas? Kai atskleidžia s?moksl?. Tad reikia surengti s?moksl?, apie kur? gal?t? pranešti.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. —Shakespeare, King Lear, III, iv

Adiós muñeca, ha sido muy hermoso, pero eras un autómata sin alma.

I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the key, mirroring the mystery of the ogive, that supreme static hypocrisy which rests on an absence, making the columns believe that they are thrusting the great ribs upward and the ribs believe that they are holding the columns down, the vault being both all and noting, at once cause and effect.

A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

Creo que, a ciertas alturas, ya no hay diferencia entre acostumbrarse a fingir que se cree y acostumbrarse a creer

A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there's perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state (attributed to James Jesus Angleton)

Sensing that I ought to become more closely involved in political matters, I realized the most attractive news to fabricate would be what these idle minds were expecting, rather than what the newspapers reported as solid fact.

Los dioses ciegan a quienes quieren perder.

The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken, but because we have not learned the art.

The wise man must attack falsehood not only with his sword but also with his tongue

E' virtù sopra la virtù dissimulare la virtù.

The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.

Ä°nsanlar? kendinden geçiren görüntüyle günahkâr say?klama aras?nda çoÄŸu kez tek bir ad?m vard?r.

Basit insanlar kasapl?k hayvan gibidir; düÅŸmana sorun ç?karmaya yarad?klar? zaman kullan?l?rlar, art?k iÅŸe yaramaz olunca da kurban edilirler.

El caso es que los periódicos no están hechos para difundir sino para encubrir noticias. Sucede el hecho X, no puedes obviarlo, pero, como pone en apuros a demasiada gente, en ese mismo número te marcas unos titulones que le ponen a uno los pelos de punta: madre degüella a sus cuatro hijos, quizá nuestros ahorros acaben en cenizas

Cizvitler, dusmani sasirtmak icin en iyi yontemin gizli mezhepler yaratmak, tehlikeli heveslilerin bu mezheplere kosmalarini beklemek, sonra da tumunu tutuklamak oldugunu biliyorlardi. Baska bir deyisle, bir tuzaktan korkuyorsan, kendin kur tuzagi. Boylece tuzaga dusenler, senin denetimin altina girer.

No sin cierto remordimiento, me sentía como un Stalin que ríe entre dientes mientras piensa: «Haced, haced, pobres bolcheviques, que yo sigo estudiando en el seminario de Tiflis y después del plan quinquenal me encargo yo.»

çünkü aynalar?n öyle bir büyüsü vard?r ki, ayna olduklar?n? bilseniz bile sizi ürkütürler.